Excerpt from The Highlands of Central India: Notes on Their Forests and Wild Tribes, Natural History, and Sports
Trap Country - Condition of the Teak Forests - Other Timber Trees - The Tapti' Valley - The Frankincense Tree - Aspects of the Forests in the Trap Region - Jungle Fires - Ancient Settlements - The koi'klls of the Tapti Valley - Difficulty of Exploration - Hid Sports - The Sambar Deer - Its Habits and Food - Death of the Bori Stag - Horns of the Sambar - Curious Occurrences in Shooting - Incidents in Tiger Shooting - Stalking the Sambar - The Hatti Hills - The bheels-a Bheel Fort Mahomedan Architecture - Difficulty of finding Sambar Dhaotea - Disappearance of the Sz'rmbar - Return to the Plains - The Valley of the Vultures - Return to the Sambar Ground - Shoot a Stag - Miss another - The Four lrorned Antelope - Bison Shooting - The Shrimp and the Skunk - Find a Herd - Kill a Bull - A Dangerous Position - A Solitary Bull - Te miss the vvater - Another Bull Killed - A Herd of Sambar - Account of a Bag.
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